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Originally Posted by Pierre
Correct....."could" have a made a difference, as opposed to "would" have made a difference.
They certainly made a difference to the 8 people that have been shot since 2005 that didn't have a weapon on them.
By the way that's 40% of the peopl shot by police in the last 7 years did not have a weapon on them.
Considering that they were shot by specially trained armed response units.
It doesn't take a massive leap to extrapolate that if you give a gun to every beat cop that that percentage would increase or at the very least stay the same.
One thing for sure though is the number of people shot would go up.
40% isn't a good enough pass rate.
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You seem to have missed (or avoided) the point. None of the other professions in that list face the type of risks that police experience on a day to day basis. I'm not saying the risks are greater or less, but Police risk intentional attacks or death each day.
That's very different from those other vocations, the majority of which I'd suggest would be down to accidents.